In the Governor's Office of the Seven Provinces in Qufu, there was a steamy and noisy atmosphere coexisting at this time. The staff and guests who used to shake paper fans and strategize were all extremely excited. Or have a red-faced argument around the map, or gather in groups and talk loudly.
The situation on the map is a mixed bag. The worry is not that the Donglu who occupy Beijing are invincible, but that since the Huaiqing counterattack, the army of rogue bandits has been singing triumphal songs and has now reached Zhending Mansion. From the map, Zhending Mansion is on the southern line. The Jingxing Road penetrates into the logistical lifeline of the Donglu army in Shanxi!
According to the information transferred from the Shandong General Army Office in Dengzhou, the Donglu army that is now deep in Shanxi includes the elites of the Two White Banners of Dorgon and Duduo, the elites of the Zhenghong Banner led by Mandahai, and the elites of the Zhenglan Banner led by Hauge. The Zhenghuang Banner Division led by Ao Bai, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army, and the Han Army led by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Shen Zhixiang. Almost all the elites came out!
Among them, the supply of nearly 80,000 troops under the command of Two Hundred Banners, Zhenghong Banner, Wu Sangui and Kong Youde all relied on Jingxing Road. Once the roving bandit's roundabout group occupied Zhending, Jingxing Road would be interrupted... I have to say that the roving bandit's large roundabout was brilliant!
The rogue bandits fought well, which means that they still have strength, and it is very likely that they will seize the city of Beijing after severely damaging the Donglu!
This is incredible! To a certain extent, the gains and losses of Beijing City mean the gains and losses of Northland. Since ancient times, China has been determined by the north and the south, and the south is conquered by the north. The real success was the Taizu Emperor Gao of this dynasty.
However, it had only been more than thirty years since Taizu established his capital at Jinling and Jianwen lost his throne. Then the kingly power of the world returned to the north again.
If the rogue bandits can capture Beijing again, then the kingship of China will most likely belong to Li Zicheng...
As a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, how could Shi Kefa not worry about the ownership of the king's spirit in the world?
As for joy, of course there is a lot of it. These days, it’s not just the rogue bandits who are singing triumphant songs, the situation in the Ming Dynasty is also gratifying!
Yanzhou garrison commander Liu Zeqing crossed the Daqing River from Dongping Prefecture to the north at the end of October, and captured Dongchang Prefecture without a single blow. Together with Li Chengdong sent by Gao Jie and Sun Degong sent by Huang Degong, they captured the northern part of Jinan Prefecture. The important town of Texas. Later, they invaded Hejian Prefecture in North Zhili and defeated Jingzhou, Dongguang, Nanpi, Cangzhou and other prefectures and counties. Successful reports came frequently and the momentum was overwhelming!
At the same time, Liu Liangzuo, the commander-in-chief of Henan, and Xu Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of Guide, attacked from Caozhou (belonging to Yanzhou Prefecture) and Yifeng (belonging to Kaifeng Prefecture) and invaded the territory of Daming Prefecture. Several minor battles occurred with the rogue bandits. After considerable friction, they occupied most of Daming Prefecture and also invaded Guangping Prefecture.
It was unstoppable along the way, and it also received strong support from the gentry in Daming Prefecture and Guangping Prefecture!
The current situation of both Northern Expedition armies is very good, and Shi Kefa knows that he still has two trump cards in his hand - Wu Sangui, who is waiting for an opportunity to defect, and Li Ruolian and Li Shiyuan (Qingzhou General Soldier) who can march into Tianjin by sea at any time. ....
"Li Ruolian is the Crown Prince's confidant, so he will definitely not betray His Highness the Crown Prince's great kindness. You don't have to worry about Denglai. The success or failure of the country now depends on Uncle Xi..."
Shi Kefa stood in front of the map hanging in his study, frowning slightly and muttering to himself. There was a rush of footsteps behind him, and then the voices of Shi Kecheng and Shi Dewei.
"Brother, according to the decree of the Fujun Grand Marshal's Palace, Lord Qiantose asked us to speed up the construction of the city and reserve enough rice, flour and salt to feed fifty thousand people for two years..."
"Sir, according to the news from the Chief of the Lu Palace, Shi Si, Shandong Commander-in-Chief Li Ruolian recently visited the Lu Palace and urged the Lu Palace to set up a villa in Taihe Mountain as soon as possible and transfer half of the palace's silver and at least 50,000 shi of rice and wheat to the Taihe Mountain villa. "
"What?" Shi Kefa was stunned for a moment, "What time is it now, why are you still making such a plan?"
"Sir," Stewie said, "perhaps Chitose is making two preparations, one for advancement and the other for retreat."
Shi Kecheng said: "Now the rise and fall of the world depends on pacifying Uncle Xi. If he doesn't take action to pacify Xibo, the Northern Expedition may not last long..."
"Why didn't Ping Xibo take action?" Shi Kefa shook his head repeatedly, "The Peiping vassal king has agreed. If he doesn't defect, what else is he waiting for? Do you want to fight with the Tatars to the end?"
"Perhaps Qiansui is worried that Uncle Ping won't be able to defeat the Tatars?" Shi Kecheng said.
Shi Kefa shook his head: "Uncle Ping Xibo can't defeat the Tatars and there are rogue bandits! The rogue bandits have stationed 80,000 old cavalry in the Zhending Mansion area, and they are now in full swing... If Ping Xibo does nothing now, the Tatars will How can you be undefeated when you are attacked from both sides?
Once the Tatars are defeated, they will have to withdraw from Beijing. Then we will have to fight with the bandits again! If Mr. Qiansui doesn't show the courage to fight the bandits to the death, I'm afraid Li Ni Zicheng's momentum will rise again. If Beijing is captured by rogue bandits, the Ming Dynasty will be in danger! "
It turned out that what Shi Kefa was most worried about was not that the Tatars would invade Shandong to dig Confucius' grave, but that Li Zicheng would return to Beijing.
In his opinion, as long as Wu Sangui reverses his behavior, the Tatars will definitely suffer heavy losses - Wu Sangui has 40,000 elite soldiers, the rogues have 80,000 elite soldiers in Zhending Prefecture, Datong Prefecture also has 30,000 elite soldiers of King Dai, and the Ming Army on the southern front There are no less than one hundred thousand elite soldiers, and there are at least tens of thousands of Li Zicheng's elite soldiers in Taiyuan Mansion.
The total number of soldiers and horses from all walks of life is at least 300,000! How could it be possible that the Tatars could not defeat a mere tens of thousands of people?
And judging from the map, the Tatars are clearly in trouble... Before Wu Sangui changes his ways, the Tatars are in danger. If he changes his ways, the Tatars will have to go back to their hometown outside the customs in despair!
So Li Zicheng will soon become Zhu Cixiang's most dangerous enemy again!
Shi Kefa thought for a while and said to his brother Shi Kecheng: "Chibao, go to Nanjing in person and explain the situation in the North to Lord Qiantose in person. If Li Ni becomes a self-sufficient person and enters Beijing again, then the imperial court had better do something. If you want to move northward, you should at least move to Zhongdu. It is not advisable to stay in Nanjing for a long time, so as not to give people the impression of being settled in the south of the Yangtze River."
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Lin Yihu, a member of the Qianhu family from the Fusi Transportation Office in Jinyiweibei Town, is now dressed like an old man from Shanxi. He has also changed his name to Jiabus. Accompanied by several sons of Yangzhou salt merchants, he is escorting dozens of carts of wheat. He swaggered into Wu Sangui's military camp under Taiyuan City.
If Shi Kefa saw how busy the Qing army camp under Taiyuan City was now, he would probably believe Zhu Cixiang's judgment that the Tatars would not be defeated so easily, so they had better quickly build Qufu City into a golden soup fortress!
Because of the Tatars and traitors under the city of Taiyuan, there is no need for Jingxing Road to transport grain and grass. Their logistics have been taken care of by wealthy Shanxi merchants from Jiexiu, Taigu, Qixian, Xugou, Pingyao and other places.
Shanxi merchants in Shanxi have always been divided into two major groups: salt merchants and merchants. The salt merchants were fed by the Ming Dynasty. The merchants, on the other hand, always go out of the country to eat smuggled food. Before the rise of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchus, they mainly traded with the Mongols. After the rise of the Qing Dynasty, selling military supplies to the Qing Dynasty and collecting intelligence for the Qing army became a shortcut for some Shanxi merchants to get rich. Among them, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yongfa made the greatest contributions to the Qing Dynasty. Later, these eight became the eight imperial merchants in the early years of the Qing Dynasty!
When Li Zicheng entered Beijing with great force, these eight major Shanxi merchants all fled from the Xuanda area where they were mainly active, and returned to their hometowns to hibernate. Li Zicheng rose too fast, and the construction of local political power was seriously lagging behind. Naturally, they could not catch him. These local snakes are very powerful in Jiexiu, Taigu, Pingyao and other places.
However, Li Zicheng's "grain-free and land equalization" policy made all Shanxi merchants, including the "Eight Major", hate it with itch - this was even more hateful than the confiscation of their land! Because Li Zicheng's approach suppressed the old exploiting class without creating a new exploiting class.
And Shanxi merchants serve the exploiting class. If you are already free of grain and equalizing the land, who needs Shanxi merchants? Small farmers don't pay rent, they grow and eat themselves, and women weave some homespun cloth to become truly self-sufficient. As for those in the middle and upper classes of the Dashun Dynasty, they didn't have much money to spend, and they also didn't need the services of businessmen.
So there is Li Zicheng, but there are no Shanxi merchants!
